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How does the Lotto work?
« on: June 08, 2012, 06:34:09 am »
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chadz on one of my forums I was looking to install a Lotto system for Rep points. I was curious on how the system works. It is physically impossable to generate random numbers. That is why american lotto's use the ball system. I was curious if you tear a few thousand tickets and get a very large hat? Or do you just have a list and have CMP put it on the wall and play pin the tail on the millionaire? OR do you just pick the sexiest person (Can't be that I haven't won yet).
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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2012, 10:44:49 am »
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Well my assumption was that considering the lottery page just says "tickets" and has absolutely nothing else written about them, is that he has a system which randomly picks a ticket belonging to a player, just like a pulling a name out of a hat I guess, so the more names you have in the hat the higher the chance you'll get picked.

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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2012, 10:50:28 am »
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Well my assumption was that considering the lottery page just says "tickets" and has absolutely nothing else written about them, is that he has a system which randomly picks a ticket belonging to a player, just like a pulling a name out of a hat I guess, so the more names you have in the hat the higher the chance you'll get picked.
There is no system to act as a "hat". Unless he makes the few thousand tickets IRL there is no way to randomly choose. That is why I am so curious.
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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2012, 10:52:21 am »
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You can't generate true random numbers. No problem with generating pseudo-random numbers, though.

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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2012, 10:52:47 am »
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Gomer, don't be dense, pseudo random is just as good as real random.
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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2012, 10:55:02 am »
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Gomer, don't be dense, pseudo random is just as good as real random.
But it's not random... And I am wondering how he does this himself? Considering the CA state lottery requires a few hundred programmers to run there pseudo systems (I got a Uncle that works for em). I wana know so I can gank it :P
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Re: How does the Lotto work?
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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2012, 11:32:52 am »
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It's random enough.

We all know how one really gets to win.

step one; buy ticket to Austria

step two; have a lovely evening with chadz

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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2012, 09:05:18 pm »
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For 15mil I would fuck chadz
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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2012, 09:51:32 pm »
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Frank you forgot step 9.

Step 9: See a therapist.

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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2012, 11:04:43 pm »
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You just need one or two big prime numbers to generate "good-enough" pseudo-random number sequences. And certainly good enough for a simple lottery.

Besides nobody prevents you from using the 50th decimal of the processor's temperature, which is probably a good choice too.

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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2012, 12:43:11 am »
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Frank you forgot step 9.

Step 9: See a therapist.
Step 10: Repeat
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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2012, 10:33:43 am »
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this is how it works

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Re: How does the Lotto work?
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2012, 05:33:26 pm »
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this is how it works

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